Appeal No. 1997-0809
Application 08/033,599
storing the status and configuration; it does not require a
local management process at the node as shown in Appellants'
figure 2 or a display. In addition, Jolissaint discloses
that a local copy of the connectivity report is preferably
retained (col. 8, lines 20-30).
Appellants further argue (Br11) that Jolissaint does
not teach "programmed means . . . for analyzing said status
and configuration data and for managing said packet
communications system in response thereto."
The Examiner refers (EA11) to column 3, lines 22-25,
column 7, lines 41-44, and column 9, lines 43-50. We agree
with the Examiner that Jolissaint teaches managing network
communications in response to status and configuration data.
The network manager 30 collects connectivity information as
shown in figure 1, which corresponds to configuration and
initialization status data (i.e., the status of the direct
links, col. 6, lines 21-22), and collects error reports or
alerts as shown in figure 3, which corresponds to status
data. We also refer to our discussion of claim 9 which
relies on column 7, lines 47-52, and column 9, lines 18-20.
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